Name: El Libro de las Ilusiones (in Spanish)
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Author: Paul Auster
ISBN: 9789875804791

portada El Libro de las Ilusiones (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Paul Auster

Publisher

Booket

Year

2012

Language

Spanish

Pages

359

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19x13 cm

Weight

258

ISBN

9875804797

ISBN13

9789875804791

Edited in

Argentina

Edition No.

9875804797

Synopsis "El Libro de las Ilusiones (in Spanish)"

Meses después del accidente en el que murieron su mujer y su hijo, David Zimmer, escritor y profesor en Vermont, escribe un libro sobre la única persona que ha conseguido devolverle la sonrisa, el actor de cine mudo Hector Mann, desaparecido décadas atrás. Un día, Zimmer recibe una carta solicitándole un encuentro: Mann sigue vivo, y quiere conocer a su devoto seguidor. A la espera de nuevas indicaciones, David recibirá la inquietante visita de Alma Grund, amiga del actor, que desencadenará acontecimientos que cambiarán su vida para siempre. En El libro de las ilusiones, la décima novela de Paul Auster, la narración de la vida de Hector Mann contada por Zimmer se mezcla con lo que le sucede al profesor y con la filmografía del actor, configurando potentes historias entrecruzadas que difuminan los límites entre la ficción y la realidad.

Paul Auster

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Paul Auster was a writer, translator, and filmmaker. Among his works are The Invention of Solitude (1982); The New York Trilogy (1987); Moon Palace (1989); Leviathan (1992); Timbuktu (1999); The Book of Illusions (2002); Oracle Night (2003); Brooklyn Follies (2005); Sunset Park (2010); Winter Journal (2012); 4 3 2 1 (2017); The Immortal Flame of Stephen Crane (2021); A Country Bathed in Blood (2023), in collaboration with Spencer Ostrander, and Baumgartner (2024). He wrote the screenplays for the films Smoke (1995) and Blue in the Face (1995), co-directing with Wayne Wang, and for Lulu on the Bridge (1998) and The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007), which he directed alone. He edited the short story collection I Thought My Father Was God (2001) and his poetic work is collected in the volume Complete Poetry (2012). He was also the author of A Life in Words (2018), a volume that collects his conversations with Professor I. B. Siegumfeldt about his work and the craft of writing.
He received numerous awards, including the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Médicis Prize for the novel Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Best Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers Guild for The Book of Illusions. He was named a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His work is translated into more than forty languages. He has received numerous awards, including the Médicis Prize for the novel Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, the Best Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers Guild for The Book of Illusions, the Qué Leer Award for Oracle Night, and the Leteo Award; he was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for The Book of Illusions and the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Music of Chance.
In 2006 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His work is translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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